*aka “rule of the majority”*
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(‘greek’ for…)
δημοκρατία
dēmoskrátos
(“rule of the people”)
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(in ‘modern usage’…)
‘system of government’ in which the ‘citizens’ exercise ‘power’ directly or elect ‘representatives’ from among themselves to form a ‘governing body’ (such as a ‘parliament’))
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*’demo-cracy'” is a system of processing ‘conflicts’ in which ‘outcomes’ depend on what participants ‘do’*
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(and no single force controls what occurs)
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(and no single force controls the ‘outcome’ of a ‘conflict’)
(the uncertainty of ‘outcomes’ is inherent in ‘democracy’, which makes all ‘forces’ struggle repeatedly for the realization of their ‘interests, being the devolution of power from a group of people to a set of rules)
(‘western democracy’ – as distinct from that which existed in ‘pre-modern societies’ – is generally considered to have originated in ‘city-states’ such as “classical athens” + the “roman republic”, where various ‘schemes/degrees’ enfranchisement of the ‘free male population’ were observed before the form disappeared in the ‘west’ at the beginning of ‘late antiquity’)
(the English word dates to the 1500s, from the older ‘middle french/latin’ ‘Middle Latin’equivalents)
(according to political scientist “Larry Diamond”, democracy consists of four key elements: (a) A political system for choosing and replacing the government through free and fair elections; (b) The active participation of the people, as citizens, in politics and civic life; (c) Protection of the human rights of all citizens, and (d) A rule of law, in which the laws and procedures apply equally to all citizens)
(in the 400s BCE, to denote the political systems then existing in Greek city-states, notably Athens, the term is an antonym to aristocracy (ἀριστοκρατία, aristokratía), meaning “rule of an elite”)
(while theoretically these definitions are in opposition, in practice the distinction has been blurred historically)
(the political system of Classical Athens, for example, granted democratic citizenship to free men and excluded slaves and women from political participation)
(in 1906, Finland became the first government to herald a more inclusive democracy at the national level)
(in virtually all democratic governments throughout ancient and modern history, democratic citizenship consisted of an elite class until full enfranchisement was won for all adult citizens in most modern democracies through the suffrage movements of the 19th and 20th centuries)
(“democracy” contrasts with forms of government where power is either held by an individual, as in an absolute monarchy, or where power is held by a small number of individuals, as in an “oligarchy”)
(nevertheless, these oppositions, inherited from Greek philosophy, are now ambiguous because contemporary governments have mixed democratic, oligarchic, and monarchic elements)
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*’karl popper’ defined ‘democracy’ in contrast to ‘dictatorship’ or ‘tyranny’, thus focusing on opportunities for ‘the people’ to ‘control’ their ‘leaders’ + to ‘oust’ them without the need for a ‘revolution’*
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